August 30, 2009

Wishing Stars is an iPhone-powered game you play at Disneyland. (Think "scavenger hunt.") It's a real-life adventure that unfolds as you find clues, solve puzzles, and explore the furthest reaches of the park (...maybe even some places that you didn't know existed!)

This sounds like a fun game to play the next time we go to Disneyland (though I'll be content with the easy puzzles, given that traipsing around obscure corners of the park to win virtual prizes may not, admittedly, be the most fun for Penelope, at this age).

April 10, 2008

There's a fascinating profile of George Clooney in the latest New Yorker. I particularly enjoyed this description of Clooney's altercation with Fabio last year:

I asked Clooney about the Fabio incident last November, and he laughed, saying, "What do you want? Dinner at an Italian restaurant with Sarah and myself and my buddy Benny and his girlfriend Meilani, and there's a table sitting there full of four or five women and Fabio with his back to me, and it's one of those things where they just keep taking your picture." He went on, "This isn't new to me. I'm going to go to dinner tonight, and they'll do it, they'll position themselves. I know it, and I'm used to it. But it went on and it went on, and I gave them the finger"—a photograph of the gesture was published online—"and they kept doing it and Fabio was looking over his shoulder and laughing and smiling and shit. So finally I go, 'O.K., enough.' I go, 'Knock it off, enough.'" And, speaking across to Fabio's table, "'I thought you were a nice guy.'"